Updated 12:25 pm, Friday, July 14, 2017

Clark, who has also used the names Danielle Markowicz and Danielle Cantrall, drove to Benton in mid-February and pleaded guilty to federal counts of embezzlement, making false bankruptcy declarations, and filing false tax returns.

Clark, who had served as the Eden Village’s Director of Human Resources and the Accounts Payable Clerk, was sentenced Thursday afternoon at U.S. federal court in Benton. She had faced up to 45 years in prison. In addition to the 37-month sentence, Clark was ordered to pay approximately $732, 000 in restitution and placed on 3 years of supervised release, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fairview Heights.

During the five-year period at Eden, she served as Eden Village’s Director of Human Resources and the Accounts Payable Clerk.

Shortly after charges were filed, the nursing home issued a statement saying that Eden residents’ and patients’ financial information were not affected by Clark’s fraudulent activity. “Clark’s frauds also had no impact on the quality of services and care Eden provided, and continues to provide for its residents and patients,” according to a statement from the center.

Eden’s investigation found that during her employment Clark embezzled Eden’s funds “by manipulating and falsifying credit card statements, preparing unauthorized checks to pay credit card accounts, and forging signatures of authorized signers on those checks, allocating fraudulent charges to various expense accounts, and issuing fake credit memorandums,’ according to the statement.

Authorities have declined to say why Clark needed the money and exactly what she spent the embezzled money on.